In today's online San Jose Mercury News they don't only tell us where food comes from, they show us -- again proving that a picture is worth a thousand slices.
Recent Posts
- New Book => New Blog: danroam.com
- Blah-Blah-Blah in a nutshell
- Blah Blah Blah is coming. It's official.
- Visual thinking essentials in black & white
- The entire history of humans and visual thinking in 5 min. (From my SXSW talk.)
- The Bonus Battle (Or: How to make the world mad at you without really trying.)
- March conference sold out: but more are coming!
- My first public "back of the napkin" training conference March 4-5 in San Francisco. 10 seats left.
- Unfolding the Napkin is available!
- Napkins at 35,000 feet
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July 22, 2007
July 18, 2007
The interface is dead. Long live the interface!
(The first in a series of posts on why everything we know about computer interfaces is soon to change... and why that is a great thing.)
If we're going to take apart the computer user interface, why not start with the fundamentals... the "click", for example.
My brother Mike sent through this brilliant (and brilliantly frustrating) interface that proves we CAN live without clicking. Who knew? The brainchild of Alex Frank and www.LXFX.de, dontclickit challenges us in the simplest way imaginable to begin to rethink the ways we interact with our computers.
Note: Especially worth it for the "mousecamp" games.
If we can leave the *click* behind, how many other standard pieces of the human-computer interaction can we get away from? More to come...
July 16, 2007
Judge a book by its cover
The folks at Penguin Portfolio and I have been having a spirited conversation about the two beautiful cover options they have created. Option A:
And Option B:
If you have an opinion, we'd love to hear it.
July 12, 2007
Napkins unite!
My friend John over at Blast Radius sent through this iPod / iPhone parody with a lot of exclamation points: a brilliant homage to the humble napkin, greatest visual communication device ever.
Since my book on "back of the napkin" business ideas will be hitting the bookstores in March, I've got to hand it to Steve Bullock Design -- this is the best ad for napkin-based thinking I've seen yet!